Alert Handlers

The following is a list of available alert handlers and their options.

Aggregate

Aggreate multiple events into a single event.

Options:

Name Type Description
interval duration string How often to aggregate events.
topic string A topic into which to publish the aggregate events.
message string A template string where {{.Interval}} and {{.Count}} are available for constructing a meaning full message.

Example:

kind: aggregate
options:
    interval: 5m
    topic: agg_5m

Send aggregate events of the past 5m to the agg_5m topic. Further handling of the aggregated events can be configured on the agg_5m topic.

Alerta

Send alert events to an Alerta instance.

Options:

Name Type Description
token string Alerta authentication token. If empty uses the token from the configuration.
token-prefix string Alerta authentication token prefix. If empty uses Bearer.
resource string Alerta resource. Can be a template and has access to the same data as the AlertNode.Details property. Default: {{ .Name }}
event string Alerta event. Can be a template and has access to the same data as the idInfo property. Default: {{ .ID }}.
environment string Alerta environment. Can be a template and has access to the same data as the AlertNode.Details property. Defaut is set from the configuration.
group string Alerta group. Can be a template and has access to the same data as the AlertNode.Details property. Default: {{ .Group }}.
value string Alerta value. Can be a template and has access to the same data as the AlertNode.Details property. Default is an empty string.
origin string Alerta origin. If empty uses the origin from the configuration.
service list of string List of effected Services.

Example:

kind: alerta
options:
    resource: system

Exec

Execute an external program, the alert data is passed over STDIN to the process.

Options:

Name Type Description
prog string Path to program to execute.
args list of string List of arguments to the program.

Example:

kind: exec
options:
    prog: /path/to/executable

Hipchat

Send alert events to a Hipchat room.

Options:

Name Type Description
room string HipChat room in which to post messages. If empty uses the channel from the configuration.
token string HipChat authentication token. If empty uses the token from the configuration.

Example:

kind: hipchat
options:
    room: '#alerts'

Log

Log alert events to a file.

Options:

Name Type Description
path string Path to the log file.
mode int File mode to use when creating the file.

Example:

kind: log
options:
    path: '/tmp/alerts.log'

Opsgenie

Send alert events to OpsGenie.

Options:

Name Type Description
teams-list list of string List of teams.
recipients-list List of recipients.

Example:

kind: opsgenie
options:
    teams:
        - rocket

Pagerduty

Send alert events to PagerDuty.

Options:

Name Type Description
service-key string The service key.

Example:

kind: pageduty

Pushover

Send alert events to Pushover.

Options:

Name Type Description
device string Specific list of user’devices rather than all of a user’s devices (multiple device names may be separated by a comma)
title string Your message’s title, otherwise your apps name is used.
url string A supplementary URL to show with your message.
url-title string A title for your supplementary URL, otherwise just URL is shown.
sound string The name of one of the sounds supported by the device clients to override the user’s default sound choice.

Example:

kind: pushover
options:
    title: Alert from Kapacitor

Post

Post JSON encoded alert data to an HTTP endpoint.

Options:

Name Type Description
url string The URL to which the alert data will be posted.
endpoint string Name of a configured httppost endpoint, cannot be specified in conjunciton with URL.
headers map of string to string Set of extra header values to set on the POST request.

Example:

kind: post
options:
    url: http://example.com

Publish

Publish events to another topic.

Options:

Name Type Description
topics list of string List of topic names to publish events.

Example:

kind: publish
options:
    topics:
        - system
        - ops_team

Sensu

Send alert events to Sensu.

Options:

Name Type Description
source string Sensu source for which to post messages. If empty uses the source from the configuration.
handlers list of string Sensu handler list. If empty uses the handler list from the configuration.

Example:

kind: sensu

Slack

Send alert events to Sensu.

Options:

Name Type Description
channel string Slack channel in which to post messages. If empty uses the channel from the configuration.
username string Username of the Slack bot. If empty uses the username from the configuration.
icon-emoji string IconEmoji is an emoji name surrounded in ‘:’ characters. The emoji image will replace the normal user icon for the slack bot.

Example:

kind: slack
options:
    channel: '#alerts'

SMTP

Send alert events via email.

Options:

Name Type Description
to list of string List of email addresses.

Example:

kind: smtp
options:
    to:
        - [email protected]
        - [email protected]

Snmptrap

Trigger SNMP traps for alert events.

Options:

Name Type Description
trap-oid string OID of the trap.
data-list object Each data object has oid, type, and value fields. Each field is a string.

Example:

kind: snmptrap
options:
    trap-oid: '1.1.1.1'
    data-list:
        oid: '1.3.6.1.2.1.1.7'
        type: i
        value: '{{ index .Field "value" }}'

Talk

Send alert events to a Talk instance. No options are available. See the Talk service configuration.

Example:

kind: talk

TCP

Send JSON encoded alert data to a TCP endpoint.

Options:

Name Type Description
address string Address of TCP endpoint.

Example:

kind: tcp
options:
    address: 127.0.0.1:7777

Telegram

Send alert events to a Telegram instance.

Options:

Name Type Description
chat-id string Telegram user/group ID to post messages to. If empty uses the chati-d from the configuration.
parse-mode string Parse node, defaults to Mardown. If empty uses the parse-mode from the configuration.
disable-web-page-preview bool Web Page preview. If empty uses the disable-web-page-preview from the configuration.
disable-notification bool Disables Notification. If empty uses the disable-notification from the configuration.

Example:

kind: telegram

Victorops

Send alert events to a VictorOps instance.

Options:

Name Type Description
routing-key string The routing key of the alert event.

Example:

kind: victorops
options:
    routing-key: ops_team

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